The best answer that describes an attitude toward religion during the great awakening is People do not have to attend an established church to experience God's forgiveness.
The Second Great Awakening involved two very different centers of activity. One emerged among the elite New England colleges, especially Yale, and then spread west across New York into Pennsylvania and Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The other center of revivalism coalesced in the backwoods of Tennessee and Kentucky and spread across rural America. What both forms of Protestant revivalism shared was a simple message: salvation is available not just to a select few but to anyone who repents and embraces Christ. The Second Great Awakening, an evangelical movement, generated widespread revivals. The Calvinist doctrine of predestination was often replaced by the concept of salvation by free will. The more democratic sects, such as Baptists and Methodists, gained huge numbers of converts. Evangelists preached to enslaved people that everyone is equal in the eyes of God.